Boston’s basking in glory today, with a second World Series win for the Sox and Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone earning real accolades for being a fantastic little film that absolutely must be seen. Right now, the town looks pretty good, which means the location scouts are out working overtime. The Sox championship might be … Continue reading
Sometimes items come up that may or may not be news; if I have never heard the information, I assume it’s news. So if you already know what I’m about to tell you and feel the need to write an email or make a message board post about how old this news is: fuck right … Continue reading
Word had come out a while back that Swedish provocateur Lukas Moodysson had snagged cash to make his first English-language film, now titled Mammoth. That money has bought a good pair of leads: Michelle Williams and the teeny-tiny Gael Garcia Bernal top the flick as a troubled couple. Production starts next week in Thailand and … Continue reading
While I was in Vancouver visiting the set of Watchmen, someone told me that The X-Files movie had opened a production office in that fair city. I came home determined to look into this and to see if I couldn’t find out more info on the plans for this movie. Who would have imagined it … Continue reading
BUY IT HERE AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PLATFORM: Xbox360, PS3, PC, Wii, PS2ESRB RATING: TeenPUBLISHER: ActivisionDEVELOPER: Red Octane This review is based on playing the game on a Playstation 2. You’re not crazy: that byline does say Devin Faraci. The last time I yapped about games on this site was when I was saying they’re not … Continue reading
The very idea of an Escape from New York remake is anything but good news, but since it is going to happen, the least we can hope for is that it either receives an imaginative overhaul (not bloody likely with Ken Nolan’s ho-hum draft) or bombs quietly like Rupert Wainwright’s The Fog. The latter suddenly … Continue reading
Let’s see… we have one successful (but not overwhelmingly so) franchise in Christopher Nolan’s Batman, a stalled franchise in Superman, a miscarried Wonder Woman, an alternate universe Justice League of America speeding toward production with George Miller at the helm, a JLA spin-off of The Flash (with the newly-attached David Dobkin directing), and, now, television … Continue reading
The good news – no, the great fucking news – is that Shawn Levy is off the big screen adaptation of The Flash. This is great news because it means that this hack isn’t going to be ruining the film incarnation of one of DC’s few cinematically intriguing characters. But is there better news? I … Continue reading